Black Cake
Book description
THE INSTANT NO. 2 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
**Featured on Barack Obama's Summer Reading List 2022**
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**Soon to be a major Hulu series by Oprah Winfrey, Aaron Kaplan and Marissa Jo Cerar**
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1 author picked Black Cake as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Black Cake is evocative—its title, story, and characters.
A black cake doesn’t sound tasty, but Wilkerson’s layered family drama, Black Cake, is delicious. The cake debuts on the first page, smeared on a wedding dress in the hands of the police. Some weddings are doomed from the start, as if the cake were bad. Black. Lightless. Cursed.
This legendary Jamaican fruitcake shows up again and again as this multi-cultural, multi-generation story unfolds moving between past and present, unraveling deception among Wilkerson’s well-developed characters with intriguing connections.
Black Cake is a fast-paced narrative replete with twists and turns. Can you really…
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